Richard Leibler
American mathematician and cryptanalyst (1914 - 2003)
- Vie
- 1914 – 2003
- Né(e) le
- 18 mars 1914
- Décédé(e) le
- 25 octobre 2003
- Nationalité
- États-Unis
Richard A. Leibler was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst. Richard Leibler was born in March 1914. He received his A.M. in mathematics from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1939. While working at the National Security Agency, he and Solomon Kullback formulated the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of similarity between probability distributions which has found important applications in information theory and cryptology. Lei
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